** President Trump praises the AI boom, but calls for data center builders to “pay their own way” in a social media post.
** A federal judge overturns the Interior Department order halting construction on the nearly-complete Revolution Wind, which the Trump administration targeted in December along with four other wind projects.
** A federal judge reverses the U.S. Energy Department’s clawback of $28 million in funding for blue-state climate projects, which were among more than $7.5 billion in grants the DOE canceled in October.
** U.S. carbon emissions increased in 2025, even as clean energy installations surged. Economy-wide emissions rose by 2.4%, according to a new analysis of federal data by the research firm Rhodium Group.
** The U.S. House passes a funding bill that would roll back $500 million previously allocated for cleaning up abandoned mines.
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** Drones struck two oil tankers in the Black Sea on Tuesday, including one chartered by U.S. oil major Chevron, the companies involved said, as they sailed toward a terminal on the Russian coast. Both were en route to the Yuzhnaya Ozereyevka terminal, a loading point for around 80% of Kazakh oil destined for international markets as well as some Russian crude, according to eight sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
** The price of oil surged as Donald Trump ramped up pressure on Iran’s leaders, telling protesters against the country’s regime that “help is on its way”. Brent crude rose by 2.9pc towards $66 a barrel, its highest level since October, after the US president urged Iranians to “take over your institutions” and “save the names of the killers and abusers”.
** Cubans are bracing for impact after U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to cut off a lifeline of Venezuelan oil from reaching Cuba, setting up a siege scenario for an island already reeling from crippling blackouts and shortages.
** The captain of a container ship that crashed into a U.S. tanker off Britain’s east coast last year did “absolutely nothing” to prevent an avoidable and fatal collision, British prosecutors said on Tuesday as his trial over a crew member’s death began.
** Authorities in Niger, one of the world’s top producers of uranium, are sounding the alarm after inspectors uncovered hundreds of barrels of radioactive material near one of the country’s most important mining areas.